Improvement in bed-bottoms



ff/72m@ @5% f @MM N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D C.

SAFEOBD B. FREEMAN, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA.

Letters Patent No. 108,470, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPRovEMx-:N'r IN BED-eoT-roMs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it 'may concern:V

Be it known that I, SAFFORD B. FREEMAN, of Burlington', in the county ofDs Moines and in the State of Iowa, have invented' certain new anduseful Improvements in Bed-Bottoms; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, making a part ot' this specification. A

The nature of my invention consist-s in 'the' construction andarrangement of a Bed-Bottoni, as willbe hereinafter fully set forth.

1n order t-o enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is an end view, and

Figure 2 a plan View of my bed-bottom.

Figure 3 is a plan view of one ofthe springs.`

A A rcpresentthe bed-slats, which run lengthwise in the lood, and aresecured near their ends to cross bars, B B, running underneath the same,

The slats, A A, are let into the cross-bars, B B, as shown' in ig.1, andthen fastened by screws.

Eaehof the cross-bars B rests upon two wooden springs, C O, resting o na crossfbar, D, in the bed.

The' springsO C at each ond of the bottom are bent in oppositedirections, as shown in fig. 1, and

placed one on top of the other. The two springs may 'then be connectedtogether-inthecenter by a bolt, a,

cross-bars B and D, at each end of the pair of springs,

said bolt passing through the. slots or notches in the springs, andfastened by a nut, d,punderneatll.

It will readily beseen that by means of the nuts d d the spring of thebed-bottom can be easily regulated.

Having thus-fully described my invention, p

What I Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The springs C G, constructed and arrangedjas described,and regulatedby means of the bolts b b and nuts d d, substantially as and for thepurposes herein set fort-h.

2. The combination of the slats A A, cross-bars B B and D D, springs GG, bolts l) l), and nuts d d, all constructed and arranged substantiallyas and for the purposes herein set forth. i

InA testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my handand seal this 15th day of September, 1870.

SAFFORD B. FREEMAN. [L.s.} Witnesses:

O. S. Oseoon, O. C. WIGHTMAN.

